Afternoon in Zurich

We left from Chamonix this morning with our destination zurich to visit my friend michele. Her and I worked together at the Banff Springs hotel and she moved back to Switzerland almost three years ago.  Our drive was beautiful.  Even though we had clouds and drizzle, we were still able to see the beauty in this country.

We arrived around lunch time and we headed into zurich.  It is a beautiful city that really doesn't feel like a big city.  It is situated on a lake with the alps in the background. I got to see where Lindt chocolate is made, but unfortunately today was a holiday here, so we couldn't go in.  We did stop for a quick second for a photo but looks like that's as close to it as I will get!  We had a delicious lunch at a cafe restaurant downtown before the weather turned on us.  Zurich really is full of banks...everywhere! And posters of roger Federer, which I didn't mind!!

We spent the rest of the day catching up, cooking dinner, watching hockey and just hanging out which was really nice way to spend a rainy evening.  michele also showed us a European tradition of the happy party table bomb where you light the bottom on fire and then little toys explode out of the top.  We had never seen anything like this before and had a good laugh.

Tomorrow we aren't sure where we will be headed.  There appears to be a dark cloud over Europe with many places calling for rain.  It is possible tomorrow is a big driving day, we will just have to see!!
We also really want to see so much more of Switzerland!

Xox